Visiting Speakers

John Haffenden is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Richard Howard is a poet and Professor of Writing at Columbia Unversity.

Donald Kelley specializes in European intellectual history, history of law, and the history of western historiography.      

Sunil Khilnani is the Avantha Professor and Director, King's India Institute at Kings College London.

Hermione Lee is well known as a writer, reviewer and broadcaster. She has reviewed widely, for the Times Literary Supplement, Essays in Criticism, Review of English Studies, The London Review of Books, The Observer, The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The New York Review of Books, and The New Yorker, among others.

Kirstie McClure is Associate Professor of Political Science at UCLA. 

John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago.

Uday Singh Mehta, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at CUNY, is a renowned political theorist whose work encompasses a wide spectrum of philosophical traditions.